Exam 4 Part 7

Question 1

SLP recites strings of names, letters, or numbers, with the patient instructed to respond to only predesignated target stimuli

Answer 1

Auditory drills

Question 2

What is a simple therapy technique to improve sustained attention deficits?

Answer 2

Playing a game with set rules

Question 3

What are some tasks to improve selective attention deficits?

Answer 3

Tasks that add competing/distractor stimuli to a sustained attention task, tasks that require the suppression of distractor for correct completion, Stroop task

Question 4

Tell what color the word is, not what the word says

Answer 4

Stroop task

Question 5

What is a task to improve alternating attention deficits?

Answer 5

Drills that require patient to shift attention from one task to another quickly and successfully; shift from playing Uno to Connect Four

Question 6

What are some tasks to improve divided attention deficits?

Answer 6

Activities that require multi-tasking (Ex: carrying on a conversation while completing a card sorting task)

Question 7

What are some environmental manipulations to facilitate attention?

Answer 7

Close blinds or shut of the TV

Question 8

What are some counseling strategies to teach the family members and caregivers of a patient?

Answer 8

Speak clearly to patient, speak to patient one person at a time, speak in short and easy to follow sentences

Question 9

How do you treat anosognosia?

Answer 9

Counseling and coaxing individual to recognize and take ownership of deficits

Question 10

To provide information, guidance, and assistance to both patients and caregivers

Answer 10

Counseling

Question 11

What are the main purposes of counseling?

Answer 11

Reduce negative reactions they have with therapy process, promote positive progress in therapy

Question 12

SLPs should focus on the _______, _______ and _______ of patients/caregivers that are directly related to the communication disorder

Answer 12

Emotions, thoughts, behaviors

Question 13

True or false: Diagnosed/undiagnosed mental health issues, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors not related to the communication disorder are within scope of practice of SLP

Answer 13

False; not within scope

Question 14

What is the main role of an SLP when a counseling patients with a neurogenic communication disorder

Answer 14

Provide a pathway to communication for those with neurogenic communication disorders

Question 15

Right hemisphere damage may cause patient to be…

Answer 15

Jovial, euphoric, lack emotion